Tue 20 June 2023: Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf has outlined “radical” plans for an independent Scotland to have a written constitution. The first minister said such a document could protect workers’ rights to strike and guarantee health care that is “free at the point of need.” Yousaf also made clear the Scottish National Party […]
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Tue 20 June 2023: US president Joe Biden says the threat of Russian president Vladimir Putin using tactical nuclear weapons is “real”, days after denouncing Russia’s deployment of such weapons in Belarus. Reuters reports: On Saturday, Biden called Putin’s announcement that Russia had deployed its first tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus “absolutely irresponsible”. “When I was […]
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Tue 20 June 2023: US Coast Guard official says search is being conducted in ‘remote area’ of Atlantic Ocean about 1,450km (900 miles) off Cape Cod. The US Coast Guard says it is doing all it can to locate a submersible vessel that went missing off the eastern coast of Canada and the United States […]
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Mon 19 June 2023: Austrian authorities said Sunday they had foiled a possible attack on Vienna’s Pride parade by three young men who allegedly sympathised with the extremist Islamic State group. The parade took place in the city on Saturday with some 300,000 people in attendance. The suspects are aged between 14 and 20 years […]
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Mon 19 June 2023: In a recent operation organized by the police in the Karabağlar district of Izmir, a 2,000-year-old female statue head belonging to the Hellenistic period was seized. The statue head, which was intended to be smuggled out of Türkiye to be sold at high prices in foreign auctions, was discovered hidden in […]
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Mon 19 June 2023: Russia’s deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus is not time-limited, state news agency TASS quoted a senior Russian diplomat on Monday as saying. Russia announced earlier in June about placing tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, a close ally which borders Ukraine. “As for the possible time frame for the presence of Russian […]
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Sun 18 June 2023: UK says Russia and Ukraine are suffering high numbers of military casualties as Kyiv fights to dislodge the Kremlin’s forces from occupied areas in the early stages of its counteroffensive. Russian losses are probably at their highest level since the peak of the battle for Bakhmut in March, UK military officials […]
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Sun 18 June 2023: Speaking to Russian RT TV channel, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, he expects Arab and countries of “Islamic civilization” to join BRICS, an acronym for current members Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. “Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Algeria. All of them are, to a certain extent, leaders of the Arab […]
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Sun 18 June 2023: A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While Independent Press takes utmost care to accurately report this developing news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos. Ukraine says its forces destroyed a “significant” ammunition […]
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Sat 17 June 2023: The Turkish national defense minister said Saturday that if Sweden fulfills its commitments it can become a NATO member like Finland, Anadolu reports. Meeting reporters in Brussels after the NATO defense ministers meeting, Yasar Guler expressed support for the military alliance’s “open door” policy. In the wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Sweden […]
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